Last year I gave my reasoning on cause prioritization and did shallow reviews of some relevant orgs. I'm doing it again this year.

Cross-posted to my website.

Cause prioritization

In September, I published a report on the AI safety landscape, specifically focusing on AI x-risk policy/advocacy.

The prioritization section of the report explains why I focused on AI policy. It's similar to what I wrote about prioritization in my 2024 donations post, but more fleshed out. I won't go into detail on cause prioritization in this post because those two previous articles explain my thinking.

My high-level prioritization is mostly unchanged since last year. In short:

In the rest of this section, I will cover:

What I want my donations to achieve

By donating, I want to increase the chances that we [...]

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Outline:

(00:22) Cause prioritization

(01:25) What I want my donations to achieve

(04:32) There is no good plan

(05:23) AI pause advocacy is the least-bad plan

(06:22) How Ive changed my mind since last year

(06:27) Im more concerned about non-alignment problems

(07:02) Im more concerned about AI-for-animals

(08:38) How my confidence has increased since last year

(08:43) We should pause frontier AI development

(09:03) Peaceful protests probably help

(10:22) I have a high bar for who to trust

(11:35) My favorite interventions

(13:04) Organizations (tax-deductible)

(13:50) AI-for-animals orgs

(15:18) AI Safety and Governance Fund

(15:54) Existential Risk Observatory

(17:02) Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)

(18:58) Palisade Research

(19:41) PauseAI US

(21:25) Video projects

(21:50) Non-tax-deductible donation opportunities

(22:28) AI Policy Network

(23:21) Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI)

(24:18) ControlAI

(25:17) Congressional campaigns

(26:17) Encode

(26:54) Where Im donating

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